Historical images seen in this workshop

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1a.		Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of Jewish fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden. Frihedsmuseet #70737 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (229.66 Kb) Print
		View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal during the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. National Archives #61323 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (204.91 Kb) Print
		Spectators look on as German police and men presumed to be members of an Einsatzkommando (mobile killing unit) execute men standing in a trench. The sand indicates that this photograph may show an action carried out along the coast of the Baltic Sea. Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes #19157 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (127.65 Kb) Print
1b.		Cover of the antisemitic German children’s book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #40000 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (438.50 Kb) Print
		Antisemitic posters, handbills, and stickers (including an election leaflet.) Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited #10641 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (65.36 Kb) Print
		Local residents watch the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz. National Archives #04372 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (136.43 Kb) Print
		A canister of Zyklon B gas crystals lies overturned on a table with some of its contents spilled. Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n01196 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (147.00 Kb) Print
1c.		Local residents watch the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz. National Archives #04372 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (136.43 Kb) Print
		Male Jews who were arrested during Kristallnacht and forced to march through the town streets under SS guard to watch the desecration of a synagogue. They were then deported. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #27224 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (113.97 Kb) Print
1d.		This election poster calls on Germans to vote in support of Hitler’s hand-picked candidates to the Reichstag (the German parliament). Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung #1998uzvr Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (70.50 Kb) Print
1e.		Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06917a Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (135.09 Kb) Print
		View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal during the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. National Archives #61323 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (204.91 Kb) Print
		Side view of the Danish rescue boat on the second floor of the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n00282 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (105.99 Kb) Print
		A canister of Zyklon B gas crystals lies overturned on a table with some of its contents spilled. Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n01196 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (147.00 Kb) Print
2.		Piles of shoes that belonged to prisoners killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland, wartime. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #0009 Download (137.58 Kb) Print
		Belongings of Auschwitz inmates: suitcases found after liberation (the suitcases had not been shipped to Germany). National Archives #12022a Download (136.15 Kb) Print
		A view of the Auschwitz II camp, showing the camp barracks. National Archives #04412 Download (144.33 Kb) Print
		Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee #79914 Download (181.72 Kb) Print
		Group portrait of Jewish high school students at the Hebrew gymnasium in Mukachevo (Munkacs). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #42559 Download (118.65 Kb) Print
		The Kohn family poses with Lina Spitzer in front of her home in Rechnitz. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33984 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (123.01 Kb) Print
	Guidelines for Teaching
1a.		The Holocaust Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia
		Antisemitic posters, handbills, and stickers (including an election leaflet.) Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited #10641 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (65.36 Kb) Print
		Local residents watch the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz. National Archives #04372 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (136.43 Kb) Print
		German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe (mobile killing unit) prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses. Library of Congress #64407 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (382.34 Kb) Print
1b.		Arrival of arrested Jews at the Austerlitz train station. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #78893 Download (110.17 Kb) Print
		SS guards walk along the arrival ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yad Vashem Photo Archives #77220 Download (116.83 Kb) Print
		Major deportations to extermination camps, 1942-1944. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #eur78940 Download (45.83 Kb) Print
2a.		Cover of the antisemitic German children’s book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #40000 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (438.50 Kb) Print
		The Kohn family poses with Lina Spitzer in front of her home in Rechnitz. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33984 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (123.01 Kb) Print
		Kathe Spiegler, the half-sister of Eugen Spitzer, poses near a pond in Vienna. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33974 Download (321.34 Kb) Print
		Olga Fuchel relaxes with her dogs in the Vienna apartment she shared with her husband, Rudolf. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06172 Download (133.57 Kb) Print
2b.		Warsaw Ghetto Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia
		A Jewish policeman directs traffic at the intersection of Leszno and Karmelicka streets in the Warsaw ghetto. Bundesarchiv #14085 Download (119.02 Kb) Print
2c.		The Kohn family poses with Lina Spitzer in front of her home in Rechnitz. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33984 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (123.01 Kb) Print
		Kathe Spiegler, the half-sister of Eugen Spitzer, poses near a pond in Vienna. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33974 Download (321.34 Kb) Print
		Olga Fuchel relaxes with her dogs in the Vienna apartment she shared with her husband, Rudolf. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06172 Download (133.57 Kb) Print
3.		Thousands of shoes confiscated from arriving prisoners at the Majdanek camp. Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n00031 Download (265.91 Kb) Print
		Belongings of Auschwitz inmates: suitcases found after liberation (the suitcases had not been shipped to Germany). National Archives #12022a Download (136.15 Kb) Print
		Group portrait of Jewish high school students at the Hebrew gymnasium in Mukachevo (Munkacs). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #42559 Download (118.65 Kb) Print
		A collection of toothbrushes confiscated from Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n01138 Download (543.48 Kb) Print
4a.		Warsaw Ghetto Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia
		Auschwitz Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia
		Children in the Westerbork transit camp. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #18139 Download (116.88 Kb) Print
		View of the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau; taken from inside the camp. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #08909 Download (145.39 Kb) Print
		Jewish women at forced labor on “Industry Street” in the Plaszow concentration camp. Leopold Page Photographic Collection #50705 Download (115.88 Kb) Print
		Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee #79914 Download (181.72 Kb) Print
4b.		Using calipers, a racial hygienist measures the forehead of a young man. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #71187 Download (210.47 Kb) Print
6.		A view of the St. Louis, surrounded by smaller vessels in the port of Havana. Herbert Karliner #88358 Download (33.01 Kb) Print
		Cover of a photo album belonging to St. Louis passenger Fritz Buff. The cover features an image of the ship. Fred Buff #29731 Download (113.46 Kb) Print
		German citizens salute Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin. National Archives #14495 Download (53.92 Kb) Print
		An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp, showing Auschwitz II (Birkenau). National Archives #03996 Download (80.62 Kb) Print
7.		Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of Jewish fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden. Frihedsmuseet #70737 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (229.66 Kb) Print
		Jews buying and selling on the corner of Dvaro Street in the Kovno ghetto. Simon Wiesenthal Center #25151 Download (118.68 Kb) Print
8.		Detail of prisoner uniforms displayed on the second floor of the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n02489 Download (440.84 Kb) Print
		A canister of Zyklon B gas crystals lies overturned on a table with some of its contents spilled. Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n01196 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (147.00 Kb) Print
		Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06917a Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (135.09 Kb) Print
		A crowd of Viennese children looks on as Austrian Nazis force a Jewish youth to paint the word “Jude” on his father’s store. Oesterreichische Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte #01510 Download (224.85 Kb) Print
9.		One of the three milk cans used by Warsaw ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum to store and preserve the secret "Oneg Shabbat" ghetto archives. Zydowski Instytut Historyczny Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy #n00100 Download (341.96 Kb) Print
		Archivists at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw sort through the contents of the Ringelblum archive, retrieved from two milk cans discovered in 1946 and 1950 in the ruins of buildings in the former ghetto. Sovfoto/Eastfoto #27069 Download (128.84 Kb) Print
10.		Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06917a Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (135.09 Kb) Print
11.		German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe (mobile killing unit) prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses. Library of Congress #64407 Read more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia Download (382.34 Kb) Print
		Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing unit) massacres in eastern Europe, June 1941-November 1942. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #eur73960 Download (49.74 Kb) Print
		Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing unit) massacres in eastern Europe, June 1941-November 1942. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #eeu73050 Download (50.03 Kb) Print
12.		A transport of Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yad Vashem Photo Archives #77221